Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the state has suffered an overall loss of Rs 8,316 crore in the floods. He urged the Centre to provide Rs 400 crore from the National Disaster Relief Fund. This is in addition to Rs 820 crore which was sanctioned earlier during the first stage of the monsoon.

Also on First Up, after visiting Bidar in Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi to campaign in Hyderabad to chart out road map to deafeat KCR in 2019 Telangana assembly polls.

In the run up to 2019 polls, India Today presents an election show that helps one understand the ever pulsating rise and fall in political popularity ratings. Jointly hosted by two of India's most experienced political journalists - the indomitable Rajdeep Sardesai and the ever perceptive Rahul Kanwal, Political Stock Exchange is designed to gauge the public mood and its variation on a weekly basis. Leading up to the impending face off between Narendra Modi against the Opposition, PSE will be using actual data collated from the ground across battleground states by the best number crunching pollsters in the business - Axis My India.

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